Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Automation & Virtualization

Paycom; Toronto; On-site; CAD 163,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Certification reimbursement

Extended Medical, Dental, Vision, and

RRSP & Employer match

Job summary

Paycom in Toronto, ON is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own and maintain critical IT infrastructure. You will manage servers, databases, APIs, networks, and security in a hybrid environment and lead automation initiatives.

This role emphasizes virtualization, AD/Azure AD, IaC with Ansible or Terraform, and on-call incident response. You will collaborate in SCRUM teams and mentor junior engineers while delivering reliable, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in systems engineering or infrastructure management.
• Strong knowledge of servers, databases, APIs, networking, firewalls, load balancers, and SAN.
• Proficiency in Windows Server administration, including patching and security.
• Hands-on virtualization with Hyper‑V and/or VMware.
• Experience with AD/Azure AD and on‑prem and cloud identity.
• Experience with Ansible or Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• PowerShell or scripting skills; able to read, write, and execute scripts.
• Familiarity with monitoring, backup technologies, and incident response.
• Experience with GitHub or Azure DevOps for code repositories.
• Excellent communicator and Agile/SCRUM team player.
• Willingness for on-call support.

Responsibilities

• Support and document IT infrastructure systems, ensuring stability and performance.
• Comprehend and manage system architecture involving servers, databases, APIs, load balancers, firewalls, networking, and SAN.
• Build, configure, and maintain virtualized environments using Hyper‑V and/or VMware.
• Administer Windows Server environments including patching, performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Manage Active Directory (on‑prem and Azure AD) and user provisioning tasks.
• Design, implement, and own automation scripts using PowerShell and infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Ansible or Terraform.
• Oversee backup processes at various levels—VM snapshots, OS‑level, and SAN‑level.
• Monitor system health and performance using appropriate logging and monitoring tools; respond to incidents and perform triage effectively.
• Use code management repositories (e.g., GitHub, Azure DevOps) for infrastructure configuration and deployment.
• Contribute to SCRUM or Agile processes by delivering infrastructure‑related tasks and improvements.
• Lead projects from design to completion with minimal supervision and guide junior engineers through mentorship and knowledge‑sharing.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and provide timely resolution to critical infrastructure issues.

Skills

IT infrastructure

Windows Server

Hyper-V/VMware

Active Directory / Azure AD

Ansible/T Terraform

PowerShell / Scripting

Monitoring tools

Backup technologies

GitHub / Azure DevOps

Agile/SCRUM

Tools

Hyper‑V

VMware

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Windows Server

Job description

Paycom in Toronto, ON is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own and maintain critical IT infrastructure. You will manage servers, databases, APIs, networks, and security in a hybrid environment and lead automation initiatives.

This role emphasizes virtualization, AD/Azure AD, IaC with Ansible or Terraform, and on-call incident response. You will collaborate in SCRUM teams and mentor junior engineers while delivering reliable, scalable systems.